⁍ Ghislaine Maxwell said under oath in 2016 that she had never witnessed ‘inappropriate underage activities’ by Jeffrey Epstein.
⁍ Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls in the mid-1990s.
⁍ The April 2016 deposition came from a now-settled civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre.
– “I have never seen anybody have sexual intercourse with Jeffrey Epstein, ever,” British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell said in a 2016 deposition. “I never saw any inappropriate underage activities with Jeffrey ever.” The statement came during a deposition Maxwell gave in response to a defamation lawsuit brought against her by Virginia Giuffre, who said Epstein kept her as a “sex slave” with Maxwell’s assistance, Reuters reports. Giuffre has said she was trafficked by Epstein, who counted President Trump, Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew as friends. Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls in the mid-1990s and is awaiting trial on charges of perjury and helping a minor engage in illegal sexual acts. In the deposition, Maxwell said she flew on Epstein’s planes with Clinton but wouldn’t characterize the two men as friends or acquaintances. “One of (the) lies she told was that President Clinton was on the island where I was present. Absolutely 100% that is a flat out total fabrication and lie,” she said. Epstein killed himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Giuffre has said she was trafficked by Epstein and helped with any issues with his homes. Maxwell told lawyers that she was employed by Epstein and hired assistants, architects, cooks, cleaners, gardeners, pool people, and pilots as part of the upkeep of six homes. “When I meant hire, I didn’t mean hire in the way you are doing it,” she said.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ghislaine-maxwell/british-socialite-ghislaine-maxwell-denied-under-oath-any-underage-sex-by-epstein-us-court-document-idUSKBN2770FZ